Welcome back to Spencer County Schools everyone. As staff is actively preparing for the return of students, Spencer County Schools has once again been the topic of discussion throughout the state with recent advancements in student achievement and academic initiatives designed to assist our students in maximizing their learning potential.

source and Youth Service Centers continue to feel the sting of statewide belt-tightening financially.
It’s not that the pie is getting any smaller, according to Family Resource Center coordinator Becky Wilson – the state government’s funding of the centers as a whole is not necessarily decreasing. Instead, more children statewide are moving to the “free lunch” category, therefore giving more schools access to the funding. The individual slice of the pie that Spencer County receives from the state is the part that continues to decrease.

Law enforcement will be roaming the grounds of Spencer County schools this fall, following an agreement between Spencer County Schools and the City of Taylorsville. Taylorsville Police Officers Damon Jewell and Kevin Mills will primarily be the district’s part-time school resource officers.

In response to confusion surrounding the Spencer County Board of Education's action issuing district-wide school supply lists for children in grades kindergarten-fifth grade, Superintendent Chuck Adams issued this statement:

Spencer County Public Schools’ kindergarten through fifth grade students will now have uniform school supply lists across the district that contain items deemed the most necessary after the Board of Education took action on the issue Monday night.
Superintendent Chuck Adams said after hearing several comments, suggestions and some complaints that supply lists were overly lengthy and that teachers in the same grades were requiring differing items, he took it upon himself to compile lists for elementary students across the district.

Wearing flip-flops, and with tattoos up and down each arm, Josh Moore isn’t what would typically come to mind when you think of the chef behind menu items such as hand-blown sugar apples, goat cheese/rock shrimp-stuffed squash blossoms and pan-seared halibut cheeks with sweet pea puree and tomato marmalade.

Students across Spencer County are preparing themselves to go back to school and the annual Healthfair and Readifest this Saturday will help parents equip their children for success when they return to class.
The event, which offers free school supplies, heath screenings and information for all ages is from 9-11:30 a.m. Saturday at Spencer County Elementary School on Mount Washington Road.